As Twitchy reported Monday, The Daily Beast took the low road with its headline, “How a 17-Year-Old’s Locker Room Freakout Became an Anti-Trans Crusade” and made her an “overnight fringe icon.” We bring that up because that’s how the Left sees a trans woman walking into the YMCA showers with a teen girl inside: it’s “fringe.” The teen complained to the city council, which counts as a “freakout.”
If you can’t support biological males in the women’s showers, you probably are fringe enough that you don’t think schools should transition students without their parents’ knowledge. As we’ve said so many times, parents are assumed to be the “enemy”: they’ll refuse to accept their child’s gender transition and it’s up to teachers and counselors to serve as their new “parents.”
The New York Times got pummeled in the replies after it ran a story on schools changing kids’ gender identities without informing their parents:
The primary function of the New York Times isn't to inform the public. It is to inform liberals when they have the green-light to discuss an issue. If liberals jump the gun and talk about it before the NYT gives its approval, they are bigots.https://t.co/VRssDlAKz4
— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) January 23, 2023
Here’s an example:
Last week, the NYT published a sympathetic profile of self-described liberal parents whose discomfort with their children's gender transitions has led them into the arms of the right: https://t.co/hPaj9jjaxc (1/3)
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) January 24, 2023
Oh no, the arms of the Right!
The level of conspiracy theorizing on this subject in lib circles is bad. They think it's *impossible* that anyone has any legitimate objections to what are, in fact, new policies (including self-ID for preteens in schools), so the only way to explain pushback is dastardly TERFs https://t.co/36wxvOcKFQ
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 24, 2023
2/ Something similar happened in the England. Campaigners pushed to codify an unpopular version of self-ID into law by reforming the GRA. This led to pushback, as did high-profile cases like Karen White and Keira Bell. The only explanation? Evil lesbian philosophy professors.
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 24, 2023
3/ I know it sounds like a niche bit of internet nerdery, but this view, that the only explanation for opposition to these proposals is TERF propaganda, went pretty mainstream. Foreign Policyexpressed exactly this view!https://t.co/yZS3wb3iqz
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) January 24, 2023
It's amazing to me that someone like this would double down on what they basically consider Bad People (the parents) and cannot imagine a world in which it was *their* chosen policies that drive contrary decision making.
— Liminal Space (@CorpusAeternus) January 24, 2023
I don't understand the impulse to discount any pushback as brainwashing by internet nazis. I'm in my early 30s and I went to lib schools in lib areas with lib peers. None of these policies have been around more than a few years! Public policy can't be settled on blogs!
— Slobar Un MaDiq (@SlobMadiq) January 24, 2023
branding 99% of people TERFs would not seem to be a great strategy for the Extremely Online Left
— Udo Kier Eagan (@AntiParasocial) January 24, 2023
And that the only issue with it is a political response from the rivals.
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) January 24, 2023
There's this weird refusal to imagine people complexly if there is any disagreement whatever.
— Patrick Colvin (@patrickcolvin) January 24, 2023
This is the problem when any sort of nuanced view, or hesitation to the current "best practices" lands you in the bigot/transphobe/insert-current-slur-of-choice category.
You have to choose to be labeled one extreme or the other.
— saint2e (@saint2e) January 24, 2023
In ten years, when it's apparent that this was largely a social contagion fueled by internet porn and drug companies looking for a new long-term profit stream those people will quietly memory-hole all their "TERF" conspiracies. They will avow that they too "had questions".
— Burt G. From O&D 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ (@Diamonddawgz1) January 24, 2023
https://twitter.com/Hurdy_Derpy_Man/status/1617892788733112321
https://twitter.com/Sunrunner0/status/1617924294339887104
They're signaling, soon to be outright threatening, people on their own side to get with the program.
— Poliwatch (@poliwatching) January 24, 2023
Trans activists and their allies just can’t comprehend why you wouldn’t want your minor daughter to undergo a double mastectomy to affirm their true gender. Since there are no long-term studies on this, how many grow to regret that decision?
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NYT catches heat for recognizing parents who don’t want schools secretly socially transitioning kids https://t.co/qADsuTvyxQ
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